$399,950 check for legal fees makes Rahm a big gun rights contributor

On February 1st the City of Chicago cut their first check for $399,950 to the Second Amendment Foundation for partial payment for the legal bills in the McDonald v. Chicago case. That probably makes Rahm and Chicago one of the bigger contributors to gun rights in the country. How's that for irony?

Just too bad Daley isn't paying anything out of his own pocket. He's gone but the taxpayers will be paying for his stubborn approach for years to come.

Now, Oak Park that was all "Gung Ho" to participate in the lawsuit, claims that tight budgets prevent them from paying any portion of the legal fees. Maybe the SAF can just take a few libraries, fire trucks or police cars as partial payment?

12. I have lost nothing...

I am a licensed handgun owner but I find this cheerleading for the gun makers tiresome. If you aren't getting paid, I wonder why you have a compulsion to taunt those who do not want a firearm in every purse and pocket.

8. They need to do them, like these folk forclosed on bank of america! VIDEO at link!

After more than 5 months of the judge's ruling, the bank still hadn't paid the legal fees, and the homeowner's attorney did exactly what the bank tried to do to the homeowners. He seized the bank's assets.

Sheriff's deputies, movers, and the Nyergers' attorney went to the bank and foreclosed on it. The attorney gave instructions to to remove desks, computers, copiers, filing cabinets and any cash in the teller's drawers.

9. On the Oak Park thing,

Chicago won't shield Oak Park from NRA's legal costs

The city of Chicago will not shield Oak Park from paying a portion of the cost for the National Rifle Association's lawyers, despite the village board passing a resolution two years ago that said otherwise.

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Part of the reason that Oak Park chose to fight was because the law firm of Mayer Brown agreed to represent the village free of charge. And in March 2009, the village board passed a resolution, accepting Chicago's offer of "limited indemnification" against paying legal fees in the event that the NRA won in court.

But Heise told Wednesday Journal on Monday that Chicago's corporation counsel ultimately did not agree to indemnification. Rather, the two communities worked out an "agreement on contribution" that has Oak Park and Chicago splitting the NRA's legal fees, based on which of the gun group's legal expenses were specifically applied to fighting each town's two separate ordinances.

I wonder how many of the good folks who are so eager to quote the "militia clause" of the Second Amendment and the dissenting opinion of Justice Souter will be making a contribution to the Chicago Treasurer to help out paying for the cost of the violation of a citizens Constitutional freedoms.

15. Oak Park got snookered

Chicago, that is, Mayor Daley, had promised to pay any legal expenses incurred by Oak Park if it would stay "steadfast" in its support of its ordinance and Chicago's ordinance, has now refused to honor its commitment, leaving Oak Park with unfunded liability of up to $800,000.

They got what anyone stupid enough to take Richard Daley at his word should get, a complete and total screwing!

The only shame is that instead of getting two fucking city cars, and a full time security detail Dickhead Daley ought to be paying this off out of his city funded pension!

25. That photo should be on the front page of the Tribune and Sun Times

But as of today, there's not a single mention of it in the papers or on the news.

Considering the usual gun control stance of the Tribune though, I'm not surprised. But then again, the Tribune is in bankruptcy.

But if the citizens knew why their library was being closed every Monday, or why the local police station was being consolidated a few miles away because of budget shortfalls, partially because of this kind of nonsense from Daley and now Rahm, they might want their elected officials to stop dicking around with their ego, the Constitution and very expensive losing issues.

But then again, Daley's brother is a senior partner with the law firm hired by the city to help with this case. Some coincidence, huh?

29. "But then again, Daley's brother is a senior partner with the law firm hired

by the city to help with this case. Some coincidence, huh?"

I'd say that this was unbelievable, but...........

But if the citizens knew why their library was being closed every Monday, or why the local police station was being consolidated a few miles away because of budget shortfalls, partially because of this kind of nonsense from Daley and now Rahm, they might want their elected officials to stop dicking around with their ego, the Constitution and very expensive losing issues.

I'd have absolutely no problem chipping in to advertise this story in a major Chicago publication. I think it would be a great idea for gun rights organizations to start getting more aggressive in letting the public know what the actual pricetag is for bankrupt ideology.